August 2022 News

Natarajan appointed Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics

Wed, 08/17/2022
Priyamvada Natarajan, a theoretical astrophysicist who maps the unseen universe — invisible entities like dark matter, black holes, and dark energy — whose presence can only...

Yale women astronomers share their stories in ‘The Sky is for Everyone’

Wed, 08/10/2022
The story of women in astronomy is not simply a tale of the planets they’ve discovered and the black holes they’ve mapped. It is a history filled with persistence and...

A new census of supermassive black holes that are growing

Tue, 08/02/2022
Yale astrophysicists have helped assemble an unprecedented census of the most powerful, growing supermassive black holes in the universe. Using data from NASA’s Swift...